anyone relocate their spare tire?

coolbreeze01 wrote:
Search Bal-hide-a-spare.

That is pretty sweet.

SoundGuy wrote:

RoyBell wrote:
Putting in front storage will only add to the tongue weight which I am trying to reduce.

Why? Have you actually measured your trailer's gross tongue weight so you know what it's average gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight is? When you add a bike rack and bikes so far to the far rear of any trailer, even a longer one, it's going to want to unload the tongue so in most cases you'd want to be adding weight to the tongue, not subtracting from it. Years ago I ditched the rear bumper bracket on our Spree and moved the spare tire to the front storage compartment and in doing so managed to achieve just under 14% gross tongue weight. Our current Freedom Express came with the spare mounted under the A frame so I moved it back slightly to the front storage compartment and this time lost a bit of gross tongue weight which is now running a bit lighter than I'd like, most often ~ 13%. Weighing both the trailer and measuring it's gross tongue weight with the trailer loaded as it typically would be for camping is key when making any changes that could affect the trailer's gross to gross tongue weight balance.

I haven't weighed mine yet, but Sticker says 6000lbs. Brochure says TW is 745, dry weight 5700 lbs. So it's 13% from the factory already. Any weight added to the trunk is going to put a lot more on the tongue than the axle. Same with the bumper. Anything on the bumper will not be a direct 1:1 vs putting it in front storage. Not sure what the spare weighs, but I suppose it can't be a whole lot. Maybe front storage isn't so bad.